

Change Engineer,
Psychology Teacher!
Jan: Started working with the Consortium for Learning Board on Phase 2 of their Business Plan.
Jan: Asked to do Therapy with 'Jasmine', a heroin 'addict' wanting to quit the drug.
Commentary:
I wouldn't pretend for a second that I can *cure* heroin addiction but the therapy
did make a real difference. [Jasmine's case study can be viewed in the Therapy pages.]
Feb-
Commentary: Alcrest
boss Allan Wakefield was a director of the Consortium for Learning, had been impressed
with my work for them and so asked me to help him put together his new plan. As the
plan had to meet certain Learning & Skills Council Humberside funding criteria, it
was essential that it met their objectives as well as Allan's
Cobus strategy session, January 2003 -
Mar: Made a presentation to the Young Enterprise South Humber Area Board on Spiral
Dynamics and Neurological Levels.
Commentary: The presentation was arranged by Duncan
Harper, husband of Jennifer Crossland. Duncan had come through the 2002 SD-
As a result of the presentation, two people from North-

A return to the Europarc Innovation Circle, March 2003 Helen M Knights]
Mar: Facilitated an interactive presentation, 'Leadership: the Spiral Dynamics Perspective', at the Grimsby Europarc Innovation Circle.
April: At her instigation, was interviewed about Humber MeshWORKS (via phone) by Alex Hall on her late show on Radio Humberside.

Shaving my legs(!) for Comic Relief, Red Nose Day, April 2003 -
May-
July: Formally incorporated the East Yorkshire NLP Group into the Humberside MESH
Network at its second anniversary Meeting at Centre 88 in Hull.
Commentary: I wanted
to bring more NLP into the MESH Network and the NLP Group was struggling for numbers,
so the incorporation made sense. It also provided me with Wendy Baxter of Summit
Consulting and Steve Gorton of Enabling Development Ltd with whom to share responsbility
for facilitating the Network. Photos from this Meeting can be viewed in the Galleries
pages.
September: Now living in Hessle, took on a 'permanent' part-
Commentary:
Psychology teachers were in short supply and Headteacher Anne McErlane knew of my
interest in Pyschology; so....
For years I had thought off and on of returning to university to do a degree in Psychology, wanting to develop my underpinning knowledge to Spiral Dynamics and NLP. Now I was offered the chance to explore a wide area of Pyschology so I could teach it.
Of course, learning the syllabus in sufficient depth fast enough to keep the students
on track for their exams presented its own rather large challenge....! It led me
to revisit material I hadn't looked at seriously in 30 years -

Bringing an NLP approach to A-
Oct: Commenced a second project with the Alcrest Academy, helping them to enhance their quality systems.
Nov: Met with Jon Neal, Liberal Democrat councillor for Howden, to introduce him
to Spiral Dynamics and Neurological Levels.
Commentary: Jon had e-
Dec: Led an INSET (staff training) session at Vermuyden on using sensory system (Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic) strategies to make learning more accessible for students.